LEPT e-bulletin – January 2020

Welcome to the LEPT e-bulletin and Happy New Year!

SPOTLIGHT ON

The EU Urban Road Safety Award. The call for applications has been extended until 16 January 2020. Do not miss this chance to showcase measures your authority has put in place to achieve Vision Zero.

EU FUNDING & LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Funding opportunities

Horizon 2020 calls have opened on 3 December 2019 and will be closing on 21 April 2020. These are single stage calls.

- MG-1-12-2020 Cities as climate resilient, connected multimodal nodes for smart and clean mobility: demonstrating and testing innovative solutions sub-topic 2: fast track and mainstream the replication of innovative, urban, per-urban and rural mobility solutions (CSA);
- MG-1-12-2020 Cities as climate resilient, connected multimodal nodes for smart and clean mobility: demonstrating and testing innovative solutions sub-topic 3: Prepare for the deployment of Urban Air Mobility in urban and peri-urban areas (CSA);
- MG-2-13-2020 Coordination and support for an integrated freight transport and logistics system (CSA);
- MG-3-6-2020 Towards sustainable urban air mobility (RIA);
- MG-3-8-2020 ‘First of a Kind’ solutions for sustainable transport and mobility: EU initiative for accelerating EU-wide market access, scale-up and derisking (CSA);
- MG-4-7-2020 Digitalisation of the transport system: data sharing (RIA);
- MG-4-8-2020 Advanced research methods and tools in support of transport/mobility researchers, planners and policy makers (RIA);
- MG-4-9-2020 The European mobility culture of tomorrow: re-inventing the wheel? (CSA).

If any of these topics are of interest to your borough, please get in touch, we can give additional information as well as support you in the bidding process.

You can find our detailed briefings here.

Learning opportunities

CIVITAS SATELLITE study visit to Madrid. The visit will focus on new mobility services and active modes and take place from 25 to 27 March. Financial support up to 600 euros might be available. Apply by 31 January 2020.

Awards

The EU Sustainable Energy Awards. This award celebrates projects that have had an outstanding impact in the field of clean and sustainable energy. Three categories are open: engagement, innovation and youth. Apply by 27 January 2020.

NEWS

ETSC calling for a zero-tolerance drink-driving limit to be introduced in 2020 The European Transport Safety Council is calling for the EU to extend the zero-tolerance limit to all 28 countries. Currently, seven countries have put it in place. According to the organisation, it is estimated that a quarter of EU road deaths a year are linked to alcohol.

**Beech Street, London to become the UK’s first 24/7 low emission street** The City of London announced its intention to close off Beech Street - a street that runs under the Barbican Estate - to polluting vehicles. If Transport for London approve of the measure, it will be put in place thanks to an experimental traffic order running for a maximum of 18 months.

**Transport for London, London Councils and the Mayor of London announce £4 million boost to electric vehicle charging points** The funding is being distributed as part of the Go-Ultra Low City Scheme (GULCS) and will be used to install more than 1,000 charging points in residential areas across 28 London boroughs. GULCS has already delivered 1,500 points throughout the city.

**Dockless bike bays introduced in East London borough Hackney** Like other authorities across the EU (Brussels, Paris...) Hackney has recently introduced micromobility parking bays, for the moment focusing on dockless bikes as e-scooters are not permitted on UK streets. The bays have been financed in partnership with the two companies currently operating in the borough, Beryl and Uber’s JUMP.

**A number of EU cities to tighten their low emission zones in January 2020** Gent, Bologna, Stockholm, Brussels, Amsterdam, Geneva or Grenoble: across the EU, cities are progressively putting in place tighter urban access restrictions, extending the existing zones or increasing prices. A range of measures that can inspire other authorities!

**The UK prepares the launch of the Bus Open Data Service** The UK Department for Transport has announced the launch of a project to publish standardised information from bus journeys across the country. The data would be open and re-usable by any third party.

**Changes in new mobility services in London** There have been recent changes in new mobility services operating in London. The dockless electric bike company Lime has announced it is dropping out of the South London borough Croydon, whilst the car club DriveNow is leaving the capital.

**WHAT LEPT IS READING**

**2020, what we’ll be looking out for – URBACT** An overview of the programme experts’ expectations for the new year, from work on gender equality to new action networks that will be focusing on mobility, like RiConnect led by Barcelona or Zero Carbon Cities led by Manchester.

**Fair access: towards a transport system for everyone – Centre for London** A report by the Centre for London on transport fares and accessibility, looking into the zone boundaries, the journey planning app and the idea of a mobility credits system.

**Parking management and SUMPs - EPOMM** The December 2019 EPOMM newsletter focused on parking management. Information-packed, the update looks into the recent decision by Brussels to cut 25% of its on-street parking, key articles published on the topic as well as the EU-funded Park4SUMP project. EV batteries are getting cleaner and cleaner: 2-3 times better than 2 years ago – Transport & Environment This article highlights that electric vehicle batteries’ carbon footprint is progressively reducing, pointing to different academic articles. The author does warn that datasets are for the moment not as robust as they could be, especially regarding metals supply chains.

Car sharing in Europe. How social, cultural and emotional factors influence users and non-users of car sharing - STARS The factsheet was published by the Horizon 2020 project STARS. It is a useful tool for any authority looking to develop car sharing, as it identifies types of non-users and barriers to take up (loss of control, presence of children in the household, pre-existing mobility patterns).

UPCOMING EVENTS Details of both free and paid upcoming events can be found on LEPT’s website.